Updated: 4/4/2025
A memorial plaque to Oleksii Prylepskyi was installed based on the decision of the Academic Council of Kherson State University
(protocol No. 7 dated December 21, 2020)
Oleksiy Prylepskyi (March 18, 1926 – April 24, 2007) was the dean of the Faculty of Education from 1977 to 1990, PhD in Pedagogy, associate professor, Excellence in Education of Ukraine, honorary professor of Kherson State University, and a participant in World War II.
Oleksiy was born in the village of Mamonyvka, Novoderevenskyi District, Orlovsk Region.
In September 1945, he started working as a teacher in primary school at Darinska School in Orlovsk Region. From April 1944, he served in the Soviet Army. He was a machine gunner on the front lines until the end of the war, and from 1946, he served in the Baltic Fleet. In 1953, he graduated from the Kaliningrad State Pedagogical Institute externally, majoring in history education. From 1951, he worked as a school inspector in the Leningrad District Education Department in Kaliningrad, and later as an inspector for the city education department. From 1951 to 1957, he was the director and teacher at Secondary School No. 20. In 1965, Oleksiy began working as a senior lecturer, and in 1974, he became the head of the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology at the Tula Pedagogical Institute.
In 1962, he entered graduate school at the Institute of Pedagogy of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Moscow.
Oleksii Prylepskyi was the founder of the Faculty of Education and its first dean, having experience as a teacher, school principal, district and city education department head, and department head of pedagogy and psychology at the Tula Pedagogical Institute. He was invited to work at Kherson State Pedagogical Institute named after N.K. Krupska by his comrade and colleague in scientific work, Professor Yevhen Petukhov, head of the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology.
Oleksii worked at Kherson State University from 1976 to 2002 as an associate professor in the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, the dean of the Faculty of Education (1977–1990), an associate professor of the Department of Pedagogy and Methodology of Primary Education, head of the Department of Pedagogy and Methodology of Primary Education (1992–1993), and associate professor of the Department of Primary Education Pedagogy. Under his leadership, the Faculty of Education established the Department of Pedagogy and Methodology of Primary Education in 1979, the correspondence department was opened in 1980, and the Department of Philological Disciplines in 1984.
As dean, he paid great attention to the development of the faculty's material and technical base, creating a team of like-minded people among students and faculty, improving their scientific and methodological level, and increasing student enrollment. He took care of the development of amateur art, and the faculty had a choir, a brass band, a women's brass band, a folk instruments orchestra, a "noisy orchestra," and a pedagogical faculty circus.
As a participant in World War II, Oleksii Prylepskyi was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War I degree, "For Courage," and medals including "For Battle Merit," "For the Liberation of Warsaw," and "For Victory over Germany."
For his many years of fruitful work, Oleksii Prylepskyi was awarded the medal ‘For Fruitful Work’, the badge ‘Excellence in Education of the USSR’, ‘Excellence in Public Education of the RSFSR’, ‘Excellence in Public Education of the Ukrainian SSR’, ‘Excellence in Education of Ukraine’, the badge of the Central Committee of the Komsomol ‘For Active Work with Pioneers’, and two medals of the German Democratic Republic: ‘Hero's Gold Medal’ and “Member of the Socialist Labour Collective”.
